Sack jigger



E. A. ERNST A ril 25, 1944.

SACK J IGGER 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed April 15 INVENTOR. EARL H. ERNST ATTORNEY.

April 25, 1944. E. A. ERNST SACK JIGGER Filed April 15, 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 EARL fl- ERNST INVENTOR.

Hrro RNEY.

Patented Apr. 25, 1944 uNirao STATES PATENT OFFICE soon noose Earl A. Ernst, Bakersfield, Calif. application A ril 18, 1942. serial No. 488,705

2 Claims.

This invention relates to a device for shaking and jiggling sacks and their contents so as to settle the contents to the bottom of the sack and compact them. Means are provided for supporting the sacks in open position and means are also provided for continuously jarring the sacks while being loaded so as to insure a full sack of the product being bagged. The invention is especially useful in machine sacking of potatoes and other vegetables, and particularly those vegetables and/or fruits which are generally ship ed in long configurated sacks. Unless the sacks are uniformly loaded. their weights would obviously vary and. therefore. a truck load or group of so many twenty-five, fifty or one hundred pound sacks would not represent any true weight of a shipment.

One of the principal objects of this invention is to present a means for sackin vegetables and/or fruits wherein the sack is firmly supported iii open position and continuously iiggled so as to. allow complete modity.

Other objects, adva tages and features or my invention will appear from the accompanying drawings, the subioin d preamble of this specification, and the appended claims.

Applicant is about to illustrate and describe one of the forms of his invention in order to teach one how to make, but it is to be understood that the drawings and description thereof are not to limit the invention in any sense whatsoever, except as limited-by the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 shows the invention in side elevation.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the invention.

Fig. 3 is an end view.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken substantially along the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is an elevational view of a portion of the invention, enlarged.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the top portion of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view taken substantially along the line 1-1 of Fig. 6.

The sacking device in the particular form illustrated comprises a central portion l and elongated side portions or extensions 2 and 8. These side portions may be identical in construction, and are identical in this form of the invention, but need not necessarily be identical. One of the side portions may be omitted entirely. The general structural members and frame for the device are shown as comprising a plurality of vertical wooden posts filling of the sack with any comdetailed description, the V use and vend the same.

I. I, t and 1 which support the central frame unit i and the inner ends of the side portions 2 and I. The outer end of the side portion 2 is supported by the posts 8 and 0, and the outer end of the other side portion is supported by the posts Ill and II as shown. The front face of side portion I is covered by plyboard or heavy planks i2 and the front face of the other side portion 8 is covered by plyboard or the heavy planks ii. Across the front face of the central portion i are the planks II. All these planks are securely nailed or bolted to the rear side of the various posts. Along the rear of the device near the top thereof is a continuous single plank I5 which is nailed to the posts 9, l, 6 and II. To give lateral stability, each end of the device has the cross and planks it and I1 nailed to their respective posts; at the central portion are the cross planks Iii and I9 as shown.

For supporting various shafts eta, the front of the central portion has the spotted horizontal members 20 and II which are nailed to the posts I and I and at the rear similar horizontal members nailed to the posts 5 and 6.

At the lower front of the device is a platform 22 which extends along the entire length of the device and preferably very heavy planking to withstand bending stresses. This platform may be a single plank or made up from a number of narrow planks. This platform is supported in a manner to allow it to be vibrated or jiggled longitudinally. At the ends and near the center of the platform are pivotally connected pairs of hangek straps 23, the tops of which are pivoted to extension elements 21, and their bottoms to the top of the platform. These extensions are supported by angle irons which have top horizontal bars 25, vertical struts 2B and feet portions 21 which are bolted or screwed to the platform. The free ends of the horizontal bars are bolted to their respective upright posts. Cleats 28 are provided on the top surface of the platform to present a plurality of areas for the bottoms of the sacks to be loaded. These cleats also strengthen the platform and tend to reduce the likelihood of warping.

A frame is provided on each right and left portion of the device to move with th platform. Each one of these frames consist of end vertical posts all and 3| Joined at their tops to a horizontal beam 32 from which protrude a plurality of spaced apart separators or heaters 33. These heaters extend between the bags or sacks, when in place, such as the sacks indicated at 34. Small feet 35 are formed at the bottom of the posts 2 assure I and ti so that they can be securely bolted to the a small v-eut wheel ll. electopsoi'theendcleatslt. Whentheplatformis tricpowerissupplied tothenmf aati zwnligated to shake the bottom of the sacks. the ventent switch provided to start and stop the heaters shake the middle portions of the sacks. motor (not shown). The motorpullsy and pulley The topsarehungontospaced apart hooks SI, 5' are connectedthe endless V-type belt ll see Figs. 6 and 7, which are fixed to the inner an the sprocket wheels II and II are conperlphery of the sack spreader loops in the frame nected by the chain II. The sprocket unit I1. Each one oi these units consist 01 on wheels II. II and II are all connected together angle iron II that is bolted to the top edge of bythsondlessohain as the upper plank l2. Within the analeis an elon- 0 From the i I specifications. it is now gated rod or pipe is supported at its ends in any obvious that when the electric motor is supplied suitable manner or bracket so as to hold theplpe with electric its speed is mechanically spaced from the legs 0! theansle iron a. spaced reduced to suit the speed of the endless at intervals along the pipe are a plurality of pivot as well as the required vibratory speed of elements ill which have integral sleeves ll surthe ligger apparatus I! The degree 01' vlbrs. rounding the pipe. These elements have under tlon will depend upon the amount of spacing besections that ens se the upper face or the horitween the shafts II and Il, and the rats of vibrazontal legs of the angle iron 38 so as to limit the downward movement of the elements ll. To the bottoms of the elements It, on each side thereof, are welded the tubes or pipes 42 and II, the bores of which receive the ends of a removable U- irame N. This U-irame is adjustable for accommodating itself for sacks having different sized openings. The set screws ll hold the U- frames in adjusted position.

Each rlghtand left section or portion of the device have an endless belt 40 which are rotate lr flmr rtea at their ends by the revolvahie cylinders or drums 41 and ll. These cylinders h'aveshaits which are lournalled in bracket thatareflxedtotheendpostsasshown. The inner opposed cylinders l. have shafts ll that are journalled in bearings ll upon the top of the horizontal timber members II and Rear one end of each of the shafts 0' iskeyed the sprocket wheel ii and lournalled to the inner side oi the member 20 is a small idler sprocket wheel 52. Joumalled on the tops of the timber members 2i and II are the spaced apart shafts 53 and II. To the shaft II is keyed a sprocket wheel It; this shafthas an extension or eccentrio shaft (crank end) I lournalled in the plate rod unit or liner II. This unit has fixed to the plate I! a bar It which has the tops of a ,bracket This bracket consists of a frame having the two angle iron lets I! and O3 welded together and the corner brace It. The leg it is securely bolted to the platform 2!.

Keyed to the shaft II is a small sprocket wheel ii and also a V-cut pulley wheel II which is larger in diameter than the sprocket wheel I. Supported by a bracket frame work Ol'is an electric motor 61 to the shaft of which is keyed ratios.

In order to cause the articles upon the belts lltobemovedlatsrallyintothevmdoussacks II, a diagonally bails plate or shearer 12 is Provided. The ends of each plate has fixed thereto the sleeves 18 and 14 which slide on their respective side rails orpipes II and II. These plates I! can be over the belts it and P perly positioned to force artigeiluggn the movie belts into any one or the Letters Patent is: p

1. In a device for shaking containers and the like to settle the connection with the platform at this central locus.

2. The device recited in designed to give lateral support to the containers at a leveLabove the surface of the platform.

EARL A. ERNS'I. 

